MODX Alternatives

MODX is described as 'The MODX Digital Experience Platform gives you everything you need to build, host, and maintain amazing websites your way. Gain complete control over your creative vision without restriction or compromise' and is a popular CMS tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MODX for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Linux, Windows and Mac apps. The best MODX alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MODX are Ghost, Drupal, Joomla and WriteFreely.

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  1. BardCanvas icon
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    BardCanvas is an Open Source CMS that fits perfectly for blogs/forums/social networks. It is fast (through several cache levels), heavily optimized (it wont collapse the server in high traffic conditions) and constantly improved.

    250 BardCanvas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Refinery CMS icon
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    Refinery is the most popular Ruby on Rails CMS and supports Rails 4.2. It's easy to extend and sticks to 'the Rails way' where possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  3. Ionize icon
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    Ionize is a free professional multilingual and user-friendly PHP Content Management System (CMS) based on CodeIgniter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
     
  4. e107 icon
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    e107 is a portal or content management system powered by PHP and MySQL that gives you a totally dynamic and professional website out of the box. Its simple wizard type install process will have you up and running in 5 minutes, and its...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. CMS Made Simple icon
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    CMS Made Simple - the open source content management system for the rest of us. CMS Made Simple helps experienced web developers and designers to create sites of power and beauty in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding and allowing your clients to update their...

    105 CMS Made Simple alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  6. Crossbill Cone is a self-hosted management system for a corporate portal, a knowledge base or a public website. Can be used as CMS or as a corporate Intranet portal.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. SiteX CMS icon
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    SiteX is a fully automated website driven by PHP and MySQL available for free download. Fast setup, 10 languages, gallery with lightbox, forums, events, links, journal/blog, guestbook, polls, comments, contact form, HTML/plain text mailshots, downloads manager, easy page editing...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Quanta CMS icon
     8 likes

    Quanta is an open source, PHP-based Content Management System that doesn't use a database, thought for the development of next-generation web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • jQuery
     
  9. Roadiz icon
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    Roadiz is a modern CMS based on a node system which can handle many types of services. Based on Symfony components and Doctrine ORM, it allows you to create your data schema from scratch and to organise your content as you want.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Midnight icon
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    Midnight provides a simple solution for getting setup with a Ghost powered blog in no time at all. We take care of all the hosting requirements so you don’t need to setup a server to install it on. We manage backups, security, updates, custom domains and more in addition to top...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. croogo icon
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    Croogo is a free, open source, content management system for PHP, released under The MIT License. It is powered by CakePHP MVC framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Zenario is a web-based content management system (CMS) that can be used for simple or complex websites. It can accommodate any visual template design, has tools for managing users, location, GIS and organisational information.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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